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Leonard's is known as an "old-fashioned, plain-Jane bakery" [3] that popularized pastries and desserts in Portuguese cuisine, like Portuguese sweet bread and pão doce meat wraps, [2] sometimes with a Hawaiian cultural borrowing like haupia, coconut, and guava filled malasadas. [4] [5]
Robert Taira founded the company, then called Robert's Bakery, in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1950. [1] [2] Taira originally specialized in baking cakes.He got his big break when he figured out how to extend the notoriously short shelf life of Portuguese sweet bread, which he could then sell in large volumes to supermarkets as shelf-stable "Hawaiian bread". [1]
The Royal Hawaiian dining room served dishes on par with the best restaurants in Europe, with an 1874 menu offering dishes such as mullet, spring lamb, chicken with tomatoes, and cabinet pudding. [34] The massive pineapple industry of Hawaii was born when the "Pineapple King", James Dole, planted pineapples on the island of Oahu in 1901. [5]
Laulau, a traditional Hawaiian dish. Adobo; Cantonese dim sum influenced dishes such as char siu manapua, fun guo is known as "pepeiao" (meaning "ear" in Hawaiian), [46] gok jai or "half moon", pork hash are a normally twice as large than the usual shumai, and "ma tai su" a baked pork and water chestnut pastry [47]
Pepperoni rolls, a simple yet flavorful snack of pepperoni baked inside soft bread, originated in the early 20th century as a convenient, portable meal for coal miners.
James Drummond Dole founded the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901. An ad for Dole pineapple juice, circa 1910. In 1899, industrialist James Dole moved to Hawaii. James was the cousin of Sanford B. Dole, who had helped overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893, and became the governor of Hawaii in 1898. [11]
14 Popular Store-Bought White Breads, Ranked by Taste
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